[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] Standardize on run-time board ID variables

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Sun Nov 4 19:29:11 CET 2012


On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:28:15AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:

> I've been thinking about one of the problems we need to solve over in TI
> AM335x land and that is given that we support a number of different
> boards with a single binary (and we have an i2c eeprom that tells us
> what board and revision we are on), the user needs to be able to easily
> determine what board we are on so they know what dtb file to load so
> they can boot.  To this end I've added
> CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG to the README which says when set
> we have board_name and board_rev set at run-time.  Then for am335x[1]
> set that and CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT which will set the variables and add a
> command, findfdt to compare and set fdtfile correctly.  Further
> distro-specific logic can then augment this to figure out what
> filesystem / partition to read from.
> 
> [1]: Yes, this will need re-working after merging Peter K's patches to
> allow for non-TI boards.

Applied to u-boot/master (with a small change in 2/2 for Stephen's
patch), thanks!

-- 
Tom
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